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A look behind the scenes of AWS Lambda and our new Lambda monitoring extension

Dynatrace

Since its introduction by AWS in 2014, AWS Lambda has revolutionized the compute space and boosted the entire serverless movement. This extension was built from scratch to take into account all we’ve learned and the special requirements for monitoring ephemeral, auto-scaling, micro VMs like AWS Lambda. Dynatrace news.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For November 9th, 2018

High Scalability

matei_zaharia : Since we opened #DAWNBench deep learning benchmark rolling submissions, there have been some cool entires. The R5a, M5a and T3a instances purportedly will offer a 10% price-to-performance advantage over AWS's other cloud instances. This is the key problem with every musical blockchain initiative I've ever seen.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For October 19th, 2018

High Scalability

adrianco : The AWS EC2 NTP service has been backed by atomic clocks for the last few years. stephenbalaban : We've benchmarked the 2080 Ti, V100, Titan V, 2080, and 1080 Ti. If you’re already on AWS then trial EKS but it doesn’t really give you that much currently. Only few astute folks take seriously.

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Aurora vs RDS: How to Choose the Right AWS Database Solution

Percona

This post was originally published in July 2018 and was updated in July 2023. Now that Database-as-a-service (DBaaS) is in high demand, there are multiple questions regarding AWS services that cannot always be answered easily: When should I use Aurora and when should I use RDS MySQL ? What are the differences between Aurora and RDS?

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Amazon Redshift and the art of performance optimization in the cloud

All Things Distributed

Verifying benchmark claims. I picked these examples because they aren't operations that show up in standard data warehousing benchmarks, yet are meaningful parts of customer workloads. Verifying benchmark claims. I've noticed a troubling trend in vendor benchmarking claims over the past year.

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Percona Database Performance Blog 2018 Year in Review: Top Blog Posts

Percona

Let’s look at some of the most popular Percona Database Performance Blog posts in 2018. We’ve had nearly 4 million visits to the blog in 2018: thank you! As 2018 moves into 2019, let’s take a quick look back at some of the most popular posts on the blog this year. And making lists. Top 10 Most Read.

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How to use Server Timing to get backend transparency from your CDN

Speed Curve

Looking at the industry benchmarks for US retailers , four well-known sites have backend times that are approaching – or well beyond – that threshold. Pagespeed Benchmarks - US Retail - LCP When you examine a waterfall, it's pretty obvious that TTFB is the long pole in the tent, pushing out render times for the page.

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